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Anti-gay activists continue to push the long-disproven idea that homosexuality and pedophilia are somehow connected, despite an utter lack of scientific proof. In December 2017, for instance, Facebook user Keya Hopkins shared an image purportedly showing a flyer in support of LGBTP rights, claiming that the P for stood for Pedosexual: This is not a genuine flyer from an LGBT group, nor has any LGBT group condoned pedophilia, let alone announced that a P would be added to the acronym in order to show support for pedophiles. This fraudulent poster seems to be the work of a 4chan misinformation campaign that began with a 23 June 2016 thread about tricking LGBT activists into supporting pedophiles. These PsyOps campaigns are usually aimed at tricking (redpilling) people into seeing reality. Several users chimed in with their ideas of how to make and promote the poster, which originally included the tagline Love Is Ageless: Nor was it the last time a 4chan group tried this. A January 2017 thread titled LGBTP General: Subversive Memesmithing Edition laid out further plans to spread the idea that the LGBT community supports pedophilia: Troll accounts posing as supporters of the LGBTP movement and at least one account posing as an official LGBTQP organization started to push the narrative on Twitter: To be clear, no LGBT organization has ever come out in favor of child molestation. Furthermore, this attempt to link homosexuality to pedophilia was rooted in bigotry, not statistics:
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